Fellow Mac users...

I apologize if this is slightly off topic, but I though this was the most fitting section for my question given the category titles.

For people running macs (there must be some of you?), how are you running Rhino and GH?

I'm using bootcamp, but am getting rather sick of it. Have any of you had any luck with VM fusion or Parallels? Or perhaps something else I haven't even heard of?

Cheers,
N

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Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on August 22, 2009 at 10:53pm

I am not running a Mac at all, but I think that long term you'll be alright. Steve (the dotNET developer with Rhino) has done some initial testing of dot net stuff on a Mac and so far its looking promising. I won't necessarily say too much else, but I would seam that when Rhino on a Mac gets released, dotNET capabilities (and therefore the ability to run GH on the Mac) will be part of it. Not sure that helps you today, but it might be useful info for the future.

Permalink Reply by Peter Varo on August 23, 2009 at 3:27am

I'm using my bootcamp partition as VMware virtual maschine, and except the rendering - it's working fine. Well, sometimes you have to switch to 'wireframe' preview mode in GH cause the 3D acceleration is not the strong part of this virtual-solution. Give a try!

@Damien - I also use the 'iRhino' - but as I can see a lot of time and developing will needed to finish this software. Maybe one more year, or one and a half.

Permalink Reply by Damien Alomar on August 23, 2009 at 8:56am

Word from McNeel is that iRhino will be "finished" about 6+ months after v5 is released. So take the timetable for v5 (which isn't set in stone as it its) and add the time to that. Things will be in there to play with way before that though. The whole dotNET solution would be too significant for it to be just "thrown in" at the end.

Permalink Reply by Nathan on August 23, 2009 at 11:39pm

Interesting. I had been wondering if Rhino OS X version may eventually support GH, thanks for the info.

I just installed the trial of VMware, things are a little slow but the convenience factor is seeming like it will make up for that.

Thanks all.
N

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 24, 2009 at 9:29am

Our* recent investigations indicate that it should be possible to supply a DotNET SDK for iRhino. However, not all plug-ins will just work. There will need a substantial amount of work to make the code run on complex plugins like Grasshopper, especially when they use non-standard dlls.

We're looking into this, and if we decide it's worth a shot then it's likely that Grasshopper will be our test case. But this is months away at the very earliest.

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David

* Actually, Steve's

Permalink Reply by Tyler Whaley on August 24, 2009 at 10:24am